We appreciate the enormous support that our ABestWeb community has experienced over the many years it has served its members and sponsors. We have decided to exit this business and have placed the property up for sale and we are actively entertaining interest.

In the meantime, community members will be able to read but not post to ABestWeb beginning on Jan. 18.

We want to thank you for your numerous contributions and your ongoing support. If you have any questions, please let us know.

isn't it a leak for affiliates sending free traffic to their resellers?

I believe it is a leak to send your traffic to their reselllers - their carts don't expect you to land people there - why would they unless you were their affiliate?

I do use Kingston. But I don't understand why you'd land your traffic on a reseller of theirs and not directly on their site. If you're trying to do price comparisons or something, I guess you could look for resellers of theirs that have their own aff program - but I'd imagine their margin would be slimmer than the OEM, and so therefore your commission would be lower there as well...

I checked some different memory modules - it appears when Kingston does not have the item in stock, then (and only then) does it list the other merchants at the bottom.

For the 10 items I checked, if they had it in stock, no other merchants were listed. If the item was not in stock, it posted the other merchants. Must be a way for Kingston to monetize traffic for items they don't have in stock. Since you paid for the customer's acquisition, it would only be fair for you to be compensated in some way. But it looks like they're just partnering with others memory merchants to make sure they don't lose someone cuz their own stock is depleted (and you'd lose the sale anyhow).

I'd ask them, if you're a heavy promoter, how you get compensated for the situation - looks like they are getting paid by those partners for your traffic - looks at first glance from the tracking cookies I looked at - that you're not. But it would take more testing than what I've done to know for sure.

Another thing I'd also want to know is... if a customer adds 1 in-stock item to the cart and 1 out-of-stock item... then what?

So THAT'S why Kingston's had such lousy results! Blast it That's who I had put up when Crucial made their restrictive PPC policy (forbidding sending PPC traffic to affiliates' own Crucial-centric pages)!

Eithier way, I am getting out of Kingston program asap. They're not replying and the way things are, they will probably need a redesign of their shopping cart pages. All these for afew complaining affiliates? Probably not .. not until it becomes a real issue with the other non-complaining ones as well.